Court Grants Discovery on Individual Defendants’ Personal Computers and Email
A New York magistrate judge has found that a plaintiff’s request for individual defendants to search for and produce certain documents from their personal computers and email accounts was not “unduly intrusive or burdensome” because the request was limited in time frame and the parties had agreed to search terms, and granted the plaintiff’s motion to compel, according to a report by Doug Austin on eDiscoverydaily.
The magistrate judge noted that “to the extent such documents exist on the Individual Defendants’ personal computers, they may contain information going to bias or motivation which may show why a personal computer was used for such communications, including information which may support Plaintiff’s claims of deliberate indifference against the Individual Defendants.”
The case involved a transgender prison inmate who sued the defendants claiming they acted “with deliberate indifference” to serious medical needs by denying hormone therapy for gender dysphoria.
